Deacon Says Goodbye To St. Olaf - Saint Olaf Catholic Church

Downtown Minneapolis
Serving as a living sign of Christ’s saving
presence in the heart of the city
DECEMBER 30, 2012
FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY
Deacon Says Goodbye
To St. Olaf
These past five years have been a joy for
me to serve you, the St. Olaf Community.
Your support, kindness, and friendship
have meant so very much for me as I have
grown to better understand the needs of
such an amazing parish as St. Olaf.
We have done many things together that
will be fond memories for me as your
Deacon (Annual Celebrations of St. Olaf
Fund Raisers, Pancakes to Heaven Sunday
Reflections, Fish Stick Friday's, Advent
Journey to Bethlehem, Dead Sea Scrolls
bus trip with Sister Joan, to name a few
that have meant so much to me).
With all the needs of the diocese, I will be
reassigned in the near future to another
parish.
I thank Fr. Mark for opening his heart and
support as I have grown in service and
preaching.
I will keep you in my prayers and hope
you do the same for me as I continue
to respond to
the call of Christ
to serve his
amazing Church.
Love and
Blessing,
Deacon Thom
Winninger

volume 8, issue 30
Serving as a living sign of
Christ’s saving presence
in the heart of the city
215 South 8th Street
Minneapolis, MN 55402-2803
Phone: 612-332-7471
Fax: 612-332-3412
St. Olaf’s Store: 612-767-6217
www.SaintOlaf.org
OFFICE HOURS
9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Monday - Friday
Pastoral Staff
Pastor
Fr. Mark Pavlik, 612-767-6201
Associate Pastor
Fr. A. Michael Sauber
612-332-7471, ext. 275
Deacon
Rev. Mr. Thom Winninger
612-332-7471, ext. 238
Parish/Business Administrator
Peter M. Barrett, 612-767-6205
Director of Worship & Music,
Organist/Pianist
Dr. Lynn Trapp, 612-767-6213
Assistant in Worship/Music
Director, Worship & Sacred Music Series
Anne Susag, 612-767-6214
Director of Social Outreach
Joan Miltenberger, 612-767-6211
Director of Pastoral Care
Mary Brady, 612-767-6202
Director of Faith & Work Program
Carol Bishop, 612-332-7471, ext. 255
Spiritual Counselor,
Centering Prayer Group
Sr. Joan Tuberty, 612-767-6212
Christmas Blessings Shared —
Thank You for Your Donations for Exodus Gift Bags
and Our St. Olaf Christmas Shop for Families in Need
Thank you for responding to the needs of poor families, and
women and men who live at the Exodus Residence, next door
to St. Olaf. Your donations of winter gloves, hats, socks,
children’s toys, stockings, teen jewelry, soccer balls, family
games, dolls was a beautiful expression of your generosity
and gratitude. Your contributions have lightened the load for
families and brought smiles to faces! We are especially grateful
to our dedicated volunteers who sorted and wrapped gifts,
greeted guests and cooked a hearty meal. You enable our parish
to “serve as a living sign of Christ’s saving presence in the heart
of the city”.
Joan Miltenberger, Director of Social Outreach
Jean Thoresen, Volunteer Coordinator Social Outreach

YEAR-END REMINDERS
2012 CONTRIBUTIONS: All payments on your
2012 commitments to St. Olaf, postmarked by
December 31, 2012, will be recorded on your
2012 statement. Any payments postmarked after
December 31 will be credited to your contributions
for 2013. We thank you for your support of this parish.
GIFTS OF STOCK are always welcome. This method may be
used to complete your annual pledge. Call your broker and Peter
Barrett, Parish/Business Administrator, at 612-767-6205 for
information.
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New Envelope System
Electronic Giving Option
Please note that your electronic giving will
continue without interruption for the new year
unless you request that it be stopped. It will
be updated with your new pledge informa-
tion as well. There is no need to re-apply
for this option. If you would like to utilize electronic giving, please call
the parish office at 612-332-7471 and ask for an authorization form.
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Beginning in January, 2013, we will be utilizing a new system for your
offering envelopes. The envelopes will be mailed to you monthly rather
than as one package each year. So often, the yearly packages have
been received and put away — and unfortunately, forgotten. The new
monthly system will provide for a more timely receipt and return of
your parish financial support. However, if you would like to use electronic
giving, we will be happy to set that up for you. Just call our office
612-332-7471 and ask for Annette. She will send you an
electronic giving application and information. At that point you may or
may not cancel your envelopes. If you wish, you may mark the envelope
showing you give electronically and put it in the collection basket.
If you have not been receiving offering envelopes, please feel free to
call the office and we will add you to the recipient’s list.
EUCHARISTIC ADORATION ON FRIDAYS
INTENTION FOR FRIDAY, JANUARY 4
HOLIDAY OFFICE
HOURS: The parish office
will be closed on January 1.
HOLIDAY PARKING:
On January 1, St. Olaf
provides free parking in the
Energy Center Ramp on the
second level and above
(across 3rd Avenue). Ramp
parking is available for a fee
on December 31. No
ground-level parking;
violators will be towed! The
Energy Center Ramp may be
accessed from either 3rd
Avenue (northbound) or
4th Avenue (southbound).
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Thank you parishioners and
members of the St. Olaf choir
for your gifts shared with our
neighbors at the Exodus Residence.
Sixty residents, 50 choir
members, 20 volunteers, Fr.
Mark, Deacon Chris, and cookie
makers made this a beautiful
community experience.
— Joan Miltenberger
Director, St. Olaf Social Outreach
For Archbishop Neinstedt and all Bishops, that their work in spreading the Gospel
May transform a world in need of healing and peace.

Ministry
Opportunity
You are invited to answer the
call to service as a Eucharistic
Minister or an Usher/Greeter
at weekend Masses at St. Olaf.
We are in need of additional
persons to be trained in these
ministries for service at all
Masses, but in particular at the
4:00 pm Mass on Saturday
and both the 12:00 noon
and 4:00 pm Masses on
Sunday. All will be given full
training and support for these
valuable positions. In addition,
we will work with your availability
and generosity of time
as the service schedule is
formed.
Now is the time to step out of
the pew and answer this call.
Please contact Anne Susag at
612-332-7471 ext. 260 or
asusag@SaintOlaf.org for more
information or to join the St.
Olaf team of ministers. Thank
you to all of our liturgical
ministers who are so generous
with their time and talent in
the service of St. Olaf Parish.
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HELP WANTED
St. Olaf’s Store
Permanent half-time
Store Associate
~
Retail experience needed
~
Comfortable with POS
system/computer software
~
Flexible / regular hours
~
For more information, contact
Peter Barrett, 612-767-6205
PRAYER CORNER
Each week St. Olaf receives prayer requests
from parishioners as well as others across the
country and throughout the world. Please join
St. Olaf’s prayer warriors this week in praying
for the following intention:
For M.B., a man with a wife and young child who was just
diagnosed with a rare form of kidney cancer, that the Lord will
grant that he is healed.
If you have an intention for which you would like St. Olaf’s
prayer warriors to pray or would like to become a prayer warrior,
just go to: SaintOlaf.org/church-sacraments/prayer-requests.
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Volunteers Needed for St. Olaf’s
Social Outreach Program
St. Olaf Outreach ministry has several special volunteer opportunities
available. Daily volunteers are needed to assist guests with
their food, clothing, and transportation needs. When not meeting
with guests, volunteers sort and organize donations, along with
other special projects. Volunteer hours are available from 9:00
am to 2:00 pm on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. This is an
unique opportunity to live out your faith through relationships
with our brothers and sisters in need and our downtown
neighbors. Ongoing training is provided. If you are interested
in this ministry, contact Jean Thoresen, Assistant in Social
Outreach, for an application and to schedule a tour: 612-332-
7471 ext. 246 or jthoresen@SaintOlaf.org.
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St. Olaf provides the option of online credit card transactions
for giving. To make an online contribution, simply go to the St.
Olaf website at www.SaintOlaf.org and click on “Donations”, then
“Donation Forms.” You use this to make your regular pledge
payment. Or, you may choose to use Electronic Funds transfer
which enables you to authorize your bank to withdraw a
specified amount of funds from your bank account to be electronically
transferred to St. Olaf. This way you know your pledge
is being fulfilled on a regular basis with no need to write checks
or use envelopes. To sign up for electronic funds transfer, please
call Annette at the office at 612-332-7471 for assistance.

FEAST OF THE
HOLY FAMILY
Weekend of
December 29-30
As we might expect on this Feast of
the Holy Family, the readings focus
on family matters. In fact, they offer
a blueprint for family stewardship.
The concept of stewardship within a
family is closely related to how family
members treat one another — how
they show respect and love for one
another.
The first reading from the Book of Sirach makes it quite clear that
children are called to honor, revere, care for, and be kind to their
father and mother. Of course, this is a manifestation of the commandment
with which we are so familiar — Honor thy Father and Mother.
Stewardship is synonymous with love. Thus, although the children are
called to love in this way, it is also strongly implied that the father
and mother are also called to love and revere one another and their
children.
“And Jesus advanced in wisdom and age and favor before God and
man.” We do not know much about the life of Jesus between his birth
and the beginning of His ministry. We are presented with one vignette
of His youth, however, in the Gospel reading from Luke. Under
Jewish tradition a boy became a Bar Mitzvah (which means Son of the
Commandment) at the age of 13. Prior to that step into maturity and
adulthood a boy was expected to study, listen, and question at the
Temple one or two years earlier. That is what Mary and Joseph and
Jesus were pursuing in this Gospel passage — they were following the
customs of the day. About this time in His life we might say, “The
child became a man.”
The Holy Family is an ideal we as people cannot replicate. Nevertheless,
it is clear that family life, like the virtues of love and kindness and
humility and forgiveness, requires constant effort. Nothing in life is
necessarily easy. Being a unified and loving family has rewards beyond
our comprehension.
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Something to Consider
For several years, St. Olaf has honored the requests of parishioners to
pre-plan their funeral arrangements. The benefits of pre-planning are
many. If you are interested or would like more information, contact
Gene Smith at St. Olaf, 612-332-7471 ext. 227 or email her at
gsmith@SaintOlaf.org.
St. Olaf
Book
Club
The St. Olaf
Book Club is looking for new
members to join their lively,
monthly discussions led by
Fr. Mark Pavlik. Members
choose books that cover a
wide variety of topics, from
literary novels to Church
history and theology.
If you are interested in joining
one or more of these conversations,
contact Fr. Mark at
mpavlik@SaintOlaf.org or
612-767-6201.
A description of each book
plus more titles can also be
found at: www.SaintOlaf.org/
parish-organizations/book-club.
Upcoming discussions
include:
Edith Stein and
Companions
by Fr. Paul Hamans
Sunday, December 30
at 1:00 pm
Adam and Eve After
the Pill: Paradoxes of
the Sexual Revolution
by Mary Eberstadt
Sunday, January 20, 2013
at 1:00 pm
Interior Freedom
by Jacque Philippe
Sunday in February, 2013
(date to be determined)

Preparing for Next
Sunday’s Liturgy
JANUARY 6
Solemnity of the
Epiphany of the Lord
FIRST READING:
Isaiah 60:1–6
RESPONSORIAL PSALM:
Psalm 72:1–2, 7–8, 10–11,
12–13
SECOND READING:
Ephesians 3:2–3a, 5–6
GOSPEL:
Matthew 2:1–12
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
The gifts of gold, frankincense, and
myrrh portend the universal significance
of the child Jesus. Myrrh, a
perfume used for burial, foreshadows
his death. Gold is a gift for
royalty, and frankincense signifies
holiness. They indicate that,
through his suffering and death,
Jesus will become both the afflicted
King, in whose service we are to
offer our gifts to the afflicted, and
the eternal Priest, whose sacrifice is
the source of atonement (at-onement)
for all humanity. The authors
of today’s Scriptures seem to
be super-sensitized to the harmony
in the world, and certain of the
goodness and oneness of all humanity.
All nations are depicted as
gathering as “members of the same
body” (Ephesians 3:6) to serve the
one and only Lord and King. No
longer do the magi feel obliged to
Herod or any power that would
separate them from the true
Source of at-one-ment — Christ
Jesus.
1. With what person do you least
feel a sense of “at-one-ment?”
2. When have you felt deeply connected
with others or with nature?
3. How do you think the experience
of the magi changed their lives?
MASS SCHEDULE
Music is part of all weekend Masses
Saturday Vigil: 4:00 pm
Sunday: 8:00 am, 10:00 am, 12:00 noon, 4:00 pm
Monday - Friday: 7:00 am, 12:00 noon, 5:15 pm
Saturday: 8:00 am, 12:00 noon
Sacrament of Penance / Confessions
Monday through Saturday: Following morning Mass
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday: Following 12:00 noon Mass
Benediction / Adoration
of the Blessed Sacrament
Fridays at 12:30 pm, chapel
(following 12:00 noon Mass in the church)
Adoration and Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament until 5 pm
5:15 pm Mass, chapel
Broadcasts
Sunday 10:00 am Mass is broadcast Sundays at 8:00 pm
on Relevant Radio, WLOL, 1330 AM.
Sunday Mass is broadcast Sundays at 8:00 pm and
Mondays at 10:00 am on MCN Cable TV Channel 6.
Downtown
Coalition for
Grief Support
Excellent speakers, trained facilitators
and a group of others who have
experienced loss make these sessions
a place of healing. It’s possible to
walk the path of grief alone, however
the companionship of others who are also wounded by loss is
tremendously consoling and powerfully healing.
Meetings every Saturday from 9:30 - 11:30 am
From January through April, meetings will be held at:
St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral
519 Oak Grove Street, Minneapolis
For more information, call 612-317-3454 or email
info@mplsgriefsupport.com or visit mplsgriefsupport.com
A small weekly donation is gratefully accepted.

Feast of the Holy Family — December 30, 2012
Order of the Mass
Our celebration of the Mass lasts about one hour. Why depart early?
“So you could not keep watch with me for one hour?”
Jesus, in the Garden of Gethsemane, before he gave his life for our salvation
Sunday 10am and 12noon Masses: Nursery is open on lower level of church complex. See usher for assistance.
PRELUDE
Sat. 4pm, Sun. 8am: He is Born by M. Dupré (1886-1971)
Sun. 10am, 12noon: Variations on Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
by A. Guilmant (1837-1911)
Sun. 4pm Ensemble: Pat-a-Pan arr. M. Haugen
OPENING
Once in Royal David’s City #372, vss. 1,2,3,5
GLORIA
New Mass for John Carroll by M. Joncas
Liturgy of the Word
We open our minds and hearts to the Word of God.
SCRIPTURE READING
1 Samuel 1:20-22, 24-28
Hannah conceived and bore a son, Samuel,
whom she presented to the Lord in the temple.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM
Psalm 84 by T. Porter #77
Happy are they who dwell in your house, O Lord.
SCRIPTURE READING
1 John 3:1-2, 21-24
God’s love is given to us, therefore we are called to believe
and love one another.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
by L. Trapp; Sun. 4pm: by G. Norbet
GOSPEL
Luke 2:41-52
At age twelve, Jesus was found in the temple listening and teaching.
HOMILY
PROFESSION OF FAITH
PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL
COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
GIA Publications/Onelicense.net, Chicago, IL. All rights reserved. Used with permission of license.
Gloria by M. Joncas ©2011; Eucharistic Acclamations by M. Guimont ©2010.
Licensing, Portland, OR. All rights reserved. Used with permission of license.
Something Which Is Known by G. Norbet ©1978 (Weston Priory).
World Library Publications, Franklin Park, IL. All rights reserved. Used with permission of license.
Lamb of God for Christmas by L. Trapp ©2001.
Liturgy of the Eucharist
Our communion with the Lord and one another.
PREPARATION OF THE GIFTS
What Child is This? #380
Sun. 4pm Ensemble: Jesus, What a Wonderful Child
by African-American Spiritual, arr. L. Larson
EUCHARISTIC PRAYER ACCLAMATIONS
Mass for a Servant Church by M. Guimont
The community prayer of praise, petition and thanksgiving is offered.
Christ, the Saving Victim is present in the consecrated Body and Blood.
THE LORD’S PRAYER
LAMB OF GOD
tune: Divinum Mysterium arr. L. Trapp
COMMUNION SONG
Nativity Carol by F. P. O’Brien #365
Sun. 4pm: Mary’s Little Boy Child by J. Hairston/arr. L. Trapp
MEDITATION
Sun. 4pm: Ave Maria by D. Kantor #789
SENDING FORTH
Sing of Mary, Pure and Lowly #783
Sun. 4pm: Go Tell It On the Mountain
POSTLUDE
Sat. 4pm, Sun. 8am: In Dulci Jubilo by J. S. Bach (1685-1750)
Sun. 10am, 12noon, 4pm:
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day by W. Held